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Google begins global rollout of age verification API in Google Play

Google's new API relies on parents to set age ranges in Family Link.

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Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning

Musk defends Grok, says Minnesota's nudifying app ban is unconstitutional.

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Sorry, haters. Ferrari’s first EV is doing just fine

To the horror of commenters across the internet, the Ferrari Luce appears to be a sales success.

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Waymo robotaxis are starting to return to freeways

Waymo robotaxis are now using freeways in Phoenix with more cities to follow in the coming days.

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US government bans new foreign-made humanoids, robot dogs, and solar inverters, citing risks to national security

The ban largely affects U.S. imports from China, which currently dominates the global market for making humanoid robots ...

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Yet more qubit tech: New quantum dot options, diamond vacancies

Companies are making sure we have a surplus of options for building qubits. ...

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Actually, Starliner might fly into space this year

"We're feeling pretty good about that," Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said.

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PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pgdog/jobs/uWymUYy-founding-software-engineer Comments URL: https://...

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Google brings its age-assurance technology to Android developers worldwide

Google is expanding its Play Age Signals API, giving Android developers a privacy-preserving way to tailor experiences b...

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Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10

I was recently laid off after 18 years, and gave myself 100 days to build soething useful in public. CheapFoodMap is a ...

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Infrastructure Patterns for Agentic Applications

Article URL: https://render.com/blog/infrastructure-patterns-for-agentic-applications Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

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Full school day cell phone bans are more popular than ever

As schools across the country continue to implement cell phone bans, a new Pew Research Center survey shows they continu...

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Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results

Article URL: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/ Comments URL:...

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Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

Article URL: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/07/keychron-announces-first-open-source-firmware-for-gaming-mice ...

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Tropical Diseases Like Dengue Fever and Chikungunya Are on the Rise in Europe

Climate change is helping invasive species to not only establish themselves across the Continent but to stay alive for l...

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Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite

I'm building Kedge, a globally distributed platform for stateful serverless apps. Here's how you make a simple static s...

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Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money

Hi HN, Rohit here from Tokenless (https://usetokenless.com/), which I’m building alongside co-founders Andrew and Kev...

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Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them

Microsoft is on a mad dash behind the scenes to patch exploits before hackers find them. ...

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Ask HN: My domain registrar (Hover) rug-pulled me for $3000

I registered the domain onlyfans.sexy ~6 years ago as a gag where I'd post pictures of fans (everything on the site and...

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Superlogical – Mitchell Hashimoto

Article URL: https://mitchellh.com/writing/superlogical Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099015 Poi...

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Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical

Article URL: https://www.superlogical.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098965 Points: 60 # Com...

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Baseload Is a Myth (2024)

Article URL: https://cleanenergyreview.io/p/baseload-is-a-myth Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098...

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Elon Musk’s X settles multiyear legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers

X sued the WFA in 2024 for conducting what it called a "systematic illegal boycott" of the platform after it saw a decli...

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Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners

AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining prop...

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New AMD Linux patch boosts low-end gaming performance on Steam Deck

Improved efficiency in EPP mode leads to ~32% jump in "1% low" frame rates. ...

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Apple should be ashamed of its hostile App Store rating system

Article URL: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/7/14.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4909...

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The Ferrari Luce has at least 500 fans

Just two months after a bumpy launch earlier this year, Ferrari has reportedly already hit its 2026 sales goal for its p...

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Gaming and IRL worlds collide in Jumanji: Open World trailer

"I'm beginning to suspect we are not in Jumanji."

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Cesium DevCon 2026 talks are up, including a keynote from SQLite's creator

Article URL: https://cesium.com/events/cesium-developer-conference/2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

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Remarkable’s refurbished bundle is an awesome deal that’s over $350 off

A lot of us here at The Verge are fans of Remarkable’s digital note-taking tablets, and right now one of its higher-en...